Inside Microsoft Office

Why Access? Knowing when to use a relational database is half the battle

by Matt Gebhardt

Many people have only a vague idea of what Access is and what it can do when they first start learning the program-and most training materials aren’t much help. Maybe your department has just installed it and you played around with it for a few minutes before you got confused and shut down the application. Or perhaps you’re at the users’ end of the forms, simply filling in the requested data and[…]